AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

A thread worth linking to, from Eric Wemple, with gems from the #defamation #lawsuit of Dominion Voting Systems v Fox News. They’ve each filed motions for summary judgment, and Dominion’s is a 200 page doozy full of internal conversations at #foxnews making it clear they knew the story was garbage but were desperately trying to recover #ratings after their audience reaction to calling Arizona correctly.

https://twitter.com/erikwemple/status/1626372140479004672?s=46&t=9k11UOpm-yBVrk62veV_zQ

@HunterNP note that encryption isn’t the only thing to look for; the real key is do the app makers retain any access to the account. Might be w best of intentions: routine IT service, password rescue, and such, but the two questions are: A) what happens if they get a subpoena/warrant and B) what happens if they go bankrupt, invalidating all contractual promises and transferring control to a trustee who dissects them to a pile of digital assets for the highest bidder.

Use paper.

@kimschulz @dangillmor @dangoodin weird, I thought that was literally in their job description.

@the_real_hal @dangillmor so ordinary people can figure out how to have accounts in multiple places, but professional self-promoters just can’t figure out how to hedge their bets? Don’t justify journalistic laziness; this is no better than the whining about being asked over and over to link to the original ruling/study/complaint in their articles. They convince themselves people don’t want whatever it is they don’t feel like doing.

@dangillmor honestly, if content creators would even just cross post! Then those of us sharing could vote with our feet. But when they post on exclusively, that’s when we’re all truly chained to going back again and again, if only to scrape for screenshots, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Well this is where Everybody is!” No shit, why could that be? Again, not even asking for blue checks to take a blind leap and give up all at once, just. crosspost.

@wdlindsy a strange ending line. I’d argue upwards of half a dozen countries played major roles in our last two elections, and not just obvious ones like China and Mexico. I feel like there are ways he could frame that premise to narrow it to just those two, but probably wouldn’t have the punchiness he was going for.

Link to ruling here: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-30625-CV0.pdf

Link to explainer thread starts here: https://twitter.com/pjaicomo/status/1625669649030430722?s=46&t=ZfJu7cHknKTdLUxX3NQTRg

Via Patrick Jaicomo:
#qualifiedimmunity #QI #unaccountability

Crime is a social construct.

#norfolksouthern #derailment #regulatorycapture #moralhazard #corporategreed #eastpalestine

https://newrepublic.com/post/170570/life-ohio-train-derailment-trouble-breathing-dying-animals-saying-goodbye

@inklings @log “if #Buttigieg had reinstated a rule, revoked by #Trump , requiring…”

@butchanarchy@kolektiva.social my drumbeat is self-policing communities that avoid getting state enforcement involved at all costs already exist. Community accountability is essentially the concepts many churches, cults, insular professional orgs, and so on already claim, but replacing rule of law w a defacto rule of social hierarchy. My acid test for abolitionist schemes is *not* splashy crimes like murder, but whether they’re going to just replicate age-old dynamics of abuse and exploitation.

@SMLP @kevinrns @forpeterssake seriously, that doesn’t even cover a family’s evacuation and lodging for a week, let alone any damages from the chemicals themselves. And how many of the residents do you think had PTO available? It’s not exactly an office hub. So EVEN if absolutely every substance turned out to be physically “harmless,” you’re still at a loss, not to mention traumatized and fearful of the safety of your water and soil going forward.

@mfreeman @forpeterssake two different time points. The $25k payout they offered in general is separate from the $1k checks offered directly to individuals.

@inklings @log doesn’t sound like Log is letting Trump off the hook, either. I think there’s plenty of blame to go around, and obviously Trump directly caused this problem, since no broad upgrades B&B could have mandated ~2 months ago would even be done by now, practically speaking. But it is still worth noting that the issue was called to their attention and they passed up a clear opportunity to address it. Because this WILL happen again.

@mybarkingdogs@ohai.social @futurebird don’t sleep on elephants. Sophisticated social structures, problem solving, emotional range, memory, tool use, communication capacity, etc. But their long lives give them an advantage as a contender for progressing into a civilization as we know it over most birds, octopi, and smaller mammals. Like, an octopus lives 1-5 years, a raven 10-15, a prairie dog 3-4, a raccoon 2-3, bonobos 40, chimps 33, dolphins 40-60, but African elephants 60-70.

@maxleibman if I lived over a megafamous city of antiquity, digging might well be my weekend hobby.